Danny L Harle has enlisted his longtime studio-mate and co-writer Caroline Polachek for the brand new track “Azimuth.” Take a pay attention beneath, through XL. Harle has additionally introduced a European tour—scroll down for the dates.
Harle says of the brand new track, “‘Azimuth’ felt just like the finalisation of an method that Caroline and I had been orbiting for a while as a means of placing her voice into my music—I generally name it the ‘trance siren.’ You’ll be able to hear manifestations of it in tracks like ‘Insomnia’ from Pang and ‘On the Seaside’ from Dying Stranding 2, however this was the primary time I managed to translate it into my type of dance music. Azimuth’s melody might solely have been sung by Caroline, it’s designed round her voice, I couldn’t think about anybody else singing it or giving a efficiency like that. It additionally allowed us to play with scale, house and tranquility in a means I’ve by no means carried out earlier than. For me, ‘Azimuth’ is a trance ballad, despairing however hopeful, greatest heard in a in membership in a sunken cathedral.”
“Azimuth” is Harle’s follow-up to the PinkPantheress collaboration “Starlight,” launched in July. That was his first solo launch since his formal solo debut LP, 2021’s Harlecore. Polachek shared her personal first submit–Desire, I Want to Turn Into You single, “Dang,” in October final yr. Since then, she has launched “Starburned and Unkissed,” from the I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack, and made an sudden look on the post-rock band Caroline’s album Caroline 2. Extra lately, she launched “On the Seaside”—the title monitor of the online game Dying Stranding 2—which was co-produced with Harle and co-written by Dying Stranding mastermind Hideo Kojima.
